Former Gilstrap Library
FORMER GILSTRAP LIBRARY, CASTLEGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196056
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gilstrap Library
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GILSTRAP LIBRARY, CASTLEGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196056
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gilstrap Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GILSTRAP LIBRARY, CASTLEGATE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GILSTRAP LIBRARY, CASTLEGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newark
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 79692 54022
Details
NEWARK ON TRENT
SK7954SE CASTLEGATE 619-1/5/119 (North West side) 06/03/84 Former Gilstrap Library. (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE GATE Gilstrap Library and Gatepiers)
GV II
Former public library, now disused. 1882 by William Henman of Henman & Beddoes of Birmingham for William Gilstrap, a local maltster who was mayor of Newark in 1888. Rear addition 1933, in sympathetic style. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with octagonal wooden lantern with leaded ogee dome. Jacobean Revival style. Chamfered plinth, sill band, moulded eaves, shouldered coped gables with ornate finials, single gable stack. Chamfered, mullioned and transomed windows throughout. Single storey plus attics and basement. 3 bay triple gabled east front has a recessed central bay containing a single storey crenellated porch topped with crest and finial. Pointed doorway with shafts and lintel inscribed "Gilstrap Library", flanked single 3 light windows. Above and behind, a large 4 light window with tympanum. To left, a crenellated square bay window with 5 lights. To right, a large 6 light window and above it a small round window with trefoil tracery. 3 bay north front has a central gabled square bay window, 6 lights, flanked by single 2 storey splayed bay windows with hipped roofs. West front has to left a single gabled bay with with a 6 light window and central addition, 1933. Single storey, 6 window range of 2 light windows, topped with parapet. Set back south bay has 2 windows. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner, revised E Williamson: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 191).
Listing NGR: SK7969254022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384968
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 191
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 33 Nottinghamshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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